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July 5, 2012, 12:30 PM

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Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch — Last night, within minutes of Apple approving the Instapaper 4.2.3 update, I was deluged by support email and Twitter messages from customers saying that it crashed immediately on launch, even with a clean install.

Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat:

Developers: Don't Push Any Updates to the App Store Right Now, Cause It's Apparently Kinda Busted — Specifically, something funky is going on with updates and the approval process. We leave the Internet for 24 hours, and this happens: Something is seriously wrong with Apple's app store.

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync — (Reuters) - The U.S. judge who tossed out one of the biggest court cases in Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) smartphone technology battle is questioning whether patents should cover software or most other industries at all.

More: Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Groklaw, iDownloadBlog.com and PhoneArena

Joseph Walker / Wall Street Journal:

Google Revamps Its Workforce Education Programs — Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page has spent the past year trying to bring a renewed sense of urgency and focus to the search company, in what he calls putting “more wood behind fewer arrows.” Playing a big part in that effort …

More: 9to5Google, ZDNet, Business Insider and Tech Daily Dose

iFixit:

Nexus Q Teardown — Did it come from outer space? Did it rise up from the depths of the lost city of Atlantis? How much of it was really made in the United States? When Google announced the Nexus Q at the I/O keynote on June 27, 2012, we decided to take one apart and see what we could uncover.

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Pulse2 Technology …, Android Phone Fans, Ubergizmo, Mashable!, Gizmodo, SlashGear and The Verge

David Pogue / New York Times:

Nexus 7, Google's New Tablet, Seriously Challenges the iPad — You can love Apple or you can hate Apple, but one thing's for sure: its favorite game is Lead the Industry. And the industry's favorite game is Follow the Leader. — Steve Jobs hated the mimicry.

More: Marketing Land, ZDNet, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, A VC, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Guardian, TechEye, Mashable!, Wall Street Journal and ABCNEWS

Graeme Burton / Computing:

Nokia should fire Elop and the board should go too - Jean-Louis Gassée — Stephen Elop ought to be fired as the CEO of Nokia and the rest of the board should join him, according to Silicon Valley veteran Jean-Louis Gassée (pictured). — “I think that Elop will have to go …

More: Shiny Objects, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, VR-Zone, UnleashthePhones, App Advice, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com and ZDNet

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Retailers Encourage Shoppers to Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store — As online shopping has surged, traditional retailers have lost millions in sales to so-called showrooming — when shoppers check out products in stores that they then buy from Web sites like Amazon.

More: Felix Salmon, Marketing Pilgrim, Fortune and Beyond Search

Zack Whittaker / CNET:

WikiLeaks starts publishing two million ‘Syria Files’ emails — Julian Assange in England in December 2010. — (Credit: CNET, CBSNews.com: Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings) — WikiLeaks, the highly controversial whistleblowing group, has begun publishing more than two million emails …

More: TechCrunch, PC World, The Firewall, Mashable!, Associated Press, ZDNet, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK, Washington Post and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Apple Said To Pick AutoNavi To Offer IPhone Maps In China — AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. (AMAP), a Chinese maker of electronic navigation tools, was chosen by Apple Inc. to offer map services for users of future iPhones and iPads in China, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

More: iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News and All Points Blog

Locus Online Perspectives:

Cory Doctorow: Music: The Internet's Original Sin — From the July 2012 issue of Locus Magazine — In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music's ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom. After all, the music industry has all but abandoned lawsuits …

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks — The next Motorola Atrix phone has been revealed on the company's website as the Atrix HD. According to the listed specs, it features a 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, will ship with Android 4. Ice Cream Sandwich …

More: eWeek, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, MobileSyrup.com, Droid Life, Mashable!, The Verge, DailyTech, Android News, Rumours …, GadgeTell, Gotta Be Mobile, newlaunches.com, Softpedia News, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, TechnoBuffalo and Electricpig.co.uk

Louis Goddard / The Verge:

Olympus announces Project Glass-style wearable display prototype — Just over a week after Google's spectacular demonstration of its Project Glass headset at Google I/O, Japanese camera maker Olympus is jumping back into the wearable computing game, announcing a new prototype of a glasses-mounted heads-up display.

More: VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Betabeat, Engadget, WebProNews and Softpedia News

CBC News:

Thousands could lose internet access July 9 due to virus — On July 9, thousands of Canadians and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide could be without access to the internet after the FBI shuts down temporary DNS servers used to assist victims of a massive internet fraud ring.

More: Forbes, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Betabeat, BGR, Neowin, blog.chron.com, PC Pro, Toronto Sun, Global TV Edmonton News and Mediacaster Magazine

The H Security:

DNSChanger victims to lose internet on Monday

More: PC Magazine, Computerworld, Techie Buzz and The Verge

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Building and dismantling the Windows advantage — When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, computers running the MS-DOS operating system were nearing a dominant position in the market. Having launched in 1981 as the IBM PC, they were quickly cloned and four years later “PCs” were selling at the rate of 2 million/yr.

More: Computerworld, Telegraph, Inquirer, Betabeat, Business Insider, PhoneArena, iClarified, The Verge, MacNN and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @naval

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

The Ratio Of PCs To Macs Sold Has Fallen To Levels Not Seen Since The 1990s

More: SlashGear and Wired

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